Monday I hooked up with Ron and did 2000M easy. Tuesday it was 98 degrees when I pulled into Greenhill for my 1500. I was pretty surprised that there were only three heats! I jumped into the fastest heat, sub 5, figuring I would run right around 5. VickyP's buddy Marius jumped onto the race. I went out with a young kid who I knew was going to run under 5. She set a pretty good pace; we came through 400 in 73, which is way too fast, but it actually felt pretty good. I hung with her until we had 400 to go when she pulled away. I came in at 4:57 which I was pretty happy with given everything! That was also first overall masters!

Wednesday it was up at ODarkThirty to catch a plane to SJC. I had all day meetings at the BMC office in Pleasanton, then I made it back to the hotel and did a nice run on the Coyote Creek Running Trail. Thursday Morning I got up early and did a longer run on Coyote Creek, this time with some intervals. Friday morning I got up early and meet @mdkail in Los Gatos for a nice run on the Los Gatos Creek Trail! That was fun, thanks Mike!

I flew back to Dallas Friday afternoon. In a shocking turn of events, neither kid had soccer practice, so I met Coach Vaughan at SMU for a couple of 400s. While I was away, Fran had managed to get the garage door jammed up AND the fridge had stopped working. The fridge miraculously had recovered, but when I got home from Track, I had to fix the garage door which took me a couple of hours. Then I noticed that the fridge had stopped working again. I took it apart and sure enough the defroster was not working. I replaced the thermostats on that sucker - which took most of the rest of the day. After all of that, plus five days of running in a row, the PF in my right foot was screaming and he Achilles on the left was screaming. Not good.

Sunday I hooked up with TZ and we had a great ride down to WRL, out to Summervale and back. Next week: STH 100 VI!

The week started off pretty well. Good swim with Ron and Harold on Monday. For the 400 Tuesday, I needed to make sure I was running fast with high turnover, unlike the 500 I had run in prep on Saturday. I did go out strong but ran out of gas with 100 to go. For Wednesday and Thursday, I made sure to hydrate unlike last week. Given I weighed in at 163 rather than 160 - I would say mission accomplished. Solid Swim with Ron, Harold, and Alex on Friday.

Big Swim with Ron and Harold on Monday, then crushed the first half of my 800 on Tuesday but ran out of gas on the last 200. Good runs on Wednesday and Thursday, but weight at 160 three days in a row tells me that I was dehydrated. *Must Drink Water*. Saturday I had 500 and 300. I ran the 500 at 800 pace - what the hell? But at least I was able to come back and nail the 300.

Sunday Ron told me that he did not want to ride intervals with William and that I should turn up and ride easy with him. That sounded like a really good plan. Until the fourth guy in our group broke a spoke around mile 9. He and Ron turned around to get a new wheel at Ron's house. So now I had to hang with William. When it came time for intervals, I got right on his wheel and did my best to stay right there. That plan worked and I was able to cover the very few gaps that opened up.

May started pretty good with a nice win at the McKinney Triathlon. From there I got focused on Track. BUT,I was still hurting from when Marissa clobbered me. That, and I had not been doing a good job with hydration and nutrition. After Memorial Weekend, I took my first day off in a year and a half.

OMG! Tuesday I was really feeling like crap after spending all of memorial weekending building a fence. I blew off running the mile at the track meet, and I took my first zero in the log book since Dec 2009.

I had a pretty easy swim on Wednesday, and then a good set of intervals on Thursday. Friday Harold, Ron, Deno and I swam outside and that water was hot! No one wanted to be in there longer than the 2000 that we put in.

Track work on Saturday was a struggle as usual.

Nice, Hard ride with TZ up to McKinney and back on Sunday.

Monday May 30: Solo Bike down to LBJ and Back (Ave 17.1, CAD 74,Ride Time 1:48, Temp 78) 30.9 miles bike.

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